Poet Amanda Hawkins shares their experience writing a poem they initially resisted writing and how Hawkins was able to move past that feeling and write.

Poetry gives voice to those who find it hard to concoct emotional speeches. As readers, we also feel attached to those ...

Poets are dramatists, self-dramatists,” Jeet Thayil tells us. “We draw into ourselves every possible bit of bombast. We make ...

Ruelaine Stokes: Hi, Scott. Thanks for asking me to come. Pohl: We have invited you, as Lansing's poet laureate, to write a holiday-themed poem. What have you written for us? Stokes: Well ...

Not long after I had rung in the New Year with my husband Leonard and two of our dearest friends, my gut started rumbling ...

In closed form specific poetic structures may repeat throughout the poem, perhaps to create rhythmic effects ... John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but ...

A few weeks ago before Christmas I was talking on the phone to my granddaughter Lyla, and she told me that she had just ...

The departure of Dave, who has been with KIRO Newsradio for 47 years, has inspired another “Jason Rantz Show” poem. Dave Ross ... Coke Zero or coffee, like me. A slight nod, a “hey ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

She worked with German designer Thilo von Debschitz to create an award-winning ... who recited one of Curt’s poems to the school off by heart. “It blew me away, I was really impressed”.

By AYO BAJE “In these hard times,“let me be your sailor ‘s sweet song above the scream of the storm;“the sonorous symphony in the teeth of agony” -Ayo Oyoze Baje ( Prelude poem as excerpt from ‘Petals ...